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I Am Waiting
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
for someone to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting

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Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music
by John Dryden

'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
By Philip's warlike son—
Aloft in awful state
The godlike hero sate
On his imperial throne;
His valiant peers were placed around,
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
(So should desert in arms be crowned);
The lovely Thais by his side
Sate like a blooming eastern bride

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Fight
by Rex Keener

People get argry
We all have emotions
Along with ideals
Humans are violent
Which leads to a unholy concoction

FIGHT

It can be over petty childish squabbles
Or over the fate of the world

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The Death-Bed
by Siegfried Sassoon

He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped
Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls;
Aqueous like floating rays of amber light,
Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep.
Silence and safety; and his mortal shore
Lipped by the inward, moonless waves of death.

Someone was holding water to his mouth.
He swallowed, unresisting; moaned and dropped
Through crimson gloom to darkness; and forgot

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On Living
by Nâzım Hikmet

I

Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example--
I mean without looking for something beyond and above living,
I mean living must be your whole occupation.
Living is no laughing matter:
you must take it seriously,
so much so and to such a degree

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Recent War Poems
Fight
by Rex Keener

People get argry
We all have emotions
Along with ideals
Humans are violent
Which leads to a unholy concoction

FIGHT

It can be over petty childish squabbles
Or over the fate of the world

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Sonnet 04: Love's Vigor Amidst War's Strife And Envy's Sting.
by Christen Kuikoua

Amidst war's guilt, in solitude I tread,
Where envy's venom seeps into my core,
In shadows draped, I mourn the love that's dead,
And death's cold grip leaves me to weep once more.

From battles fought, I bear the scars of shame,
Isolation's chains encircle me tight,
Yet in your love, I find a flickering flame,
A beacon in the dark, dispelling night.


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R.O.F.E.T.(Ro-Fet)
by Jerry Lawrence

Real.
On Time.
Fighter.
Enemy Du Jour.
Timeless.

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We shan't forget you - Battle of Britain's longest day August 15
by Dr. Robert Ippaso

They were young starry-eyed, yet too soon so many had to die.
Brave to a fault with wanderlust of youth, no challenge spurned however seemingly uncouth.
In azure blue skies with only clouds as friends, they sought their prey through war's myopic lens.
No quarter given and none spared by their foes, incandescent bullets superseding schoolyard blows.
Skill and verve no match for destiny's roulette, to survive another day an all too losing bet.
Still they flew and fought with all their might, for love of country protecting it from blight.
Summoned by that bell with its strident chilling tones, pervading every pore of their worn and tired bones.
Verve and duty each relying on the other, no place to hide but raw courage as their cover.
For all those boys that fast turned into men, saving our isles from sweeping plain to gleaming glen,
We shall remember you forever in our lore, the few that gave so much and often so much more.

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What did I do - in Putin’s own words
by Dr. Robert Ippaso

What did I do,
Quite the disaster, but if only they knew
The depth of the hole I find myself in,
Thank goodness ambition is no mortal sin.

I seriously thought this thing would be fast,
A simple invasion, a side show, a blast,
Over by dinner then pop the Champagne,
Ukraine by name only, Russia’s domain.


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  • Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling (75 poems about War)
    30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 / Bombay
  • Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman (47 poems about War)
    31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892 / New York / United States
  •  Anonymous Olde English
    Anonymous Olde English (33 poems about War)
  • James Macpherson
    James Macpherson (31 poems about War)
    27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796 / Ruthven, Kingussie, Badenoch, Inverness-Shire, Scotland
  • Siegfried Sassoon
    Siegfried Sassoon (31 poems about War)
    1886 - 1967 / Kent / England
  • John Barbour
    John Barbour (19 poems about War)
    c.1320 – 13 March 1395 / Aberdeenshire or Galloway, Scotland
  • Wilfred Owen
    Wilfred Owen (17 poems about War)
    1893-1918 / Shropshire / England
  • Andrew Marvell
    Andrew Marvell (13 poems about War)
    31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678 / Yorkshire, England
  • Sir Walter Scott
    Sir Walter Scott (12 poems about War)
    1771-1832 / Edinburgh / Scotland
  •  Franklin Pierce Adams
    Franklin Pierce Adams (11 poems about War)
    F.P.A.] (15 November 1881 – 23 March 1960 / Chicago, Illinois
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